Armenia and the information war

[ashot24]

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The interview.

The obvious lack of common sense, with a clear stance of retardation, from Aliyev in his statements made the reporter uncomfortable and skeptical about the man he was interviewing, in an "is this a joke?" and "you really mean this?" manner. King Aliyev the II made himself look like an idiot once again.

[ashot24]

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I found this two interesting videos on YouTube, I wanted to share with you

Armenia's culturally split town[of Shushi] by Al Jazeera English

Communism surviving in Armenia by BBC

[Tigranakert]

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Television Cleanup?: Regulator calls for cleanup of content on prime time TV

An Armenian TV and radio regulator is taking a harder line on what it sees as “an abundance of vulgarity, horror and brazen violence” dominating serials, films and programs on Armenian television. The National Commission on Television and Radio (NCTR) has developed a set of criteria that it says will improve the quality of prime time TV.

According to draft criteria developed by the commission, TV companies should not allow on its air programs that have a negative effect on the health, intellectual and physical development and education of minors. (Programs will be monitored against including drug addicts, parodies on drunkards, materials disparaging of spiritual, cultural values, of highly merited persons of the nation, discrediting parents and educators, romanticizing criminals and gangsters or making heroes out of them, vulgarity, obscene language, etc.). Films of erotic nature and horror films should be shown only during late night hours (specific time is yet to be determined).

The draft is included in Article 24 of Armenia’s Law “On Television and Radio”. The amendments to the law are on the agenda of the National Assembly’s spring session that opened on February 1. A working group involving intellectuals, artists, pedagogues and psychologists has been set up at the NCTR to elaborate the draft criteria.

On February 4, members of the NCTR presented the draft criteria to TV companies based in Yerevan. NCTR Chairman Grigor Amalyan said that the guiding principle for the members of the working group in setting the criteria was what they would not want their own children to watch on television.

“We had a task to get the criteria that are the demand of our society,” said Amalyan.

Teachers and psychologists voiced their sharp criticism of television through the press when a 16-year-old boy brutally murdered his 13-year-old neighbor in Yerevan late last year. Many think that particular cruelty observed among minors is the immediate result of influence of Armenian serials depicting gangster life where murders and criminal showdowns take place nearly every episode. Besides, according to the Aravot daily, the TV companies were criticized even by President Serzh Sargsyan during his end-year meeting with heads of TV companies. In particular, according to the paper, Sargsyan said that in pursuit of popularity ratings TV companies have flooded the air with low-quality programs, films and shows.

During the Thursday discussion heads of TV companies mainly were asking the NCTR to introduce clarity in the criteria, to make them more precise. Amalyan asked the heads of TV companies to present their observations and submit proposals to the NCTR until February 8.

NCTR member, filmmaker Zhirayr Dadasyan told ArmeniaNow that no matter what criteria are set, nothing will change in the Armenian air until genuine professionals are recruited in TV productions.

“Now everyone without an appropriate education thinks that they can write scenarios, produce shows,” says Dadasyan.

Actor Artur Mkrtchyan, who was involved in two serials and acted as a representative of the underworld, says that his characters on TV can be met in Armenian reality. However, he thinks that in the same reality it is difficult to determine who represents the underworld and who doesn’t.

“Criminals today are both in government and in business. How will they distinguish who represents the underworld and who doesn’t?” says Mkrtchyan, who now plays the character of a representative of law in another serial.

[ashot24]

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Here are both the Euronews interview to Aliyev, written and the video

Euronews interview to Ilham Aliyev

Video for the Interview

[ninetoyadome]

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Azerbaijan protests Prescient Worldwide for displaying Nagorno-Karabakh as Armenian territory
08.02.2010 20:10


Azerbaijan, Baku, 8 February /Trend News, M.Aliyev/

Azerbaijani embassy in the United States sent a protest to the president of the telephone company Prescient Worldwide Richard Minervin in connection with displaying Nagorno-Karabakh as a territory of Armenia on the official website of the company, said the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan. The letter required to correct the grave error and avoid similar mistakes in the future.

The response letter by the director of the company said that the information on the site was changed and similar mistakes will not repeat in the future.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are currently holding the peace negotiations.

Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. Security Council's four resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the occupied territories.

http://en.trend.az/news/karabakh/1635140.html

[ninetoyadome]

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New Azerbaijan Party organizes presentation of “Iravan Khanate”

[ 10 Feb 2010 12:02 ]


Baku. Elbrus Seyfullayev – APA. On Wednesday, New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) has organized the ceremony of presentation of the book “Iravan Khanate”. According to APA, YAP Executive Secretary Ali Ahmadov said the book is about the Iravan Khanate which played important role in the history of South Caucasus. He said it was painful for every nation and people to lose its lands and it is more painful to forget losses. “Azerbaijani people don’t forget the lost lands. If we don’t forget, we have future. Azerbaijani youth knows it. The history of Iravan Khanate is an integral part of the rich material and spiritual cultural history of the Azerbaijani people created throughout millenniums. This book will be translated into different languages and spread over the world.

One of the book authors Yagoub Mahmoudov said current territory of Armenia was a territory of Azerbaijan’s Iravan Khanate in near past – early 19th century. “The ancient population of these lands was Azerbaijani Turks. This book proves everything with the facts”.

The archive materials and pictures proving movement of Armenians to the Azerbaijani lands were demonstrated at the event.

576-page book was prepared by the Institute of History of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.


and yet there not going to talk about the removal of Armenians from those lands by the Persian empire. its integral to azerbaijans history, from the 19th century. what a history.

[SevSpitak]

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There should be either a definitive NON-biased version, or none (speaking of the euronews problem).

[Tigranakert]

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Azerbaijan able to defeat Armenia in two months

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Azerbaijan able to defeat Armenia in two months, Soso Tsintsadze said.

Rector of the Georgian Diplomatic Academy and former adviser on political issues of three presidents of Georgia Soso Tsintsadze said “Azerbaijan would have been able to defeat Armenia and return lands at least in a couple of months”.

He noted that "he has never heard that the lands lost could have been returned at the negotiation table".

"For me France is the example of the return of its lands. In 1870 it lost Elzas and Lotaringia in the result of war with Prussia for almost 50 years. Throughout this period, the French diplomacy has conducted huge and thorough work to return these lands. French realized that they will be unable to defeat Germany in a one-on-one fight, like now Georgia will never be able to defeat Russia, like Azerbaijan will be unable to face Armenia one-on-one as Russia will never allot it. Though I do not doubt that today Azerbaijan would be able to defeat Armenia and return lands", Soso Tsintsadze said, report Novosti-Azerbaijan.

"He said the aim of the French diplomacy was the international isolation of Germany, cutting the close tie between Berlin and Petersburg, cause a quarrel between the two cousins – Wilhelm and Nicholai. In addition, the great contribution of the French Diplomacy of that time was that it attained reconciliation of its interests with England and reconcile Russia with England.

In the result, France managed to involve Russia into the First World War which was not needed to Russia at all. Therefore, I think our countries should act by the French experience but with the amendment that it is already the 21st century and it is not necessary to fight for liberation of lands".

ANS PRESS

Hahahaha... at least in a couple of months. Their news is writting in a child-like fashion, Azerbaijan is really a country made of donkeys (sorry donkeys, it's an insult to your species).

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Euronews restored “Winds of change in Nagorno-Karabakh” on website
14:09 / 02/17/2010


Euronews video “Winds of change in Nagorno-Karabakh” posted on agency's website last November and removed on demand of Azerbaijani side is restored.

The video captured by Euronews journalists who visited Nagorno-Karabakh reflected true essence of Karabakh conflict while NKR was presented as an independent republic.

After the item was placed on Euronews website, Azerbaijani side as expected threw a fit. Country’s Foreign Ministry even filed a note of protest to Euronews. Channel’s management had to remove the video and shoot another film “Forgotten victims of frozen conflict” about Azerbaijani refugees.

However, “Winds of change in Nagorno-Karabakh” was restored on the website right after a new film appeared.

http://news.am/en/news/14534.html

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Parliament of Azerbaijan can again begin discussions related to Euronews TV channel
Azerbaijan, Baku, February 17 /Trend News, A.Huseynbala/

The Parliament of Azerbaijan can again begin discussions related to the Euronews TV channel.

"Returning the biased and one-sided reportage regarding the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to the website of the Euronews TV channel makes regret, and this issue may again be brought up for discussion at the next meeting of the Parliament," deputy chairman of the committee on defence and security of the Parliament, MP Aydin Mirzazade told Trend News on Feb. 17.

Euronews TV channel again posted the reportage titled "Nagorno-Karabakh - wind of change" on its website.

On Nov. 28, Euronews has broadcasted a reportage by Michael Raikhman "Nagorno-Karabakh - wind of change", which is very biased and one-sidedly interpreted events in the Karabakh war. After Azerbaijan's protest, the reportage was removed from the side.

The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a cease-fire agreement in 1994. The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the United States - are currently holding peace negotiations.

According to Mirzazade, Euronews TV channel conducts a double policy.
"On the one hand, this channel shows the fair position of Azerbaijan, on the other - at the European level, presents false and slanderous claims of Armenians," he said.

"Already it is clear how the channel adheres to its position, and to what extent adheres to the European objectivity. Inaccuracies were also made in demonstrating Azerbaijan's position on this channel," the MP said.

According to him, for this reason, perhaps this issue can be re-considered at the Parliament.

"But the current position of Azerbaijan, measures aimed at liberating its lands will not be weaker due to some reportages by Euronews". We can achieve our goals through our own force. But along with this, the duplicitous policy of the channel, presenting someone's questionable interest, causes a big damage to the objective image of Europe," said Mirzazade.

http://en.trend.az/news/karabakh/1641119.html

[Federate]

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Congratulations everyone. I would like to believe that our campaigning all over the net against Euronews' removal of the video had something to do with their decision to restore "Winds of Change".